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Studio Setting

Artist:Arnold Armitage
Date:C. 1950
Medium:Oil on stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 31 1/4" x 42"; Framed 36" x 47"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Published Calendar Pin-up Art
Price: Sold
Full view of oil on canvas painting
Full view of oil on canvas painting
The artist's signature lower left
The artist’s signature lower left
Dated 1955 Calendar of Studio Setting (included in sale)
Dated 1955 Calendar of Studio Setting (included in sale)

This is a large format erotic pin-up calendar painting by the English illustrator Arnold Armitage. This was likely painted in about 1950 and appeared in calendars at that time with the title Studio Setting. This nude beauty proved too provocative for some markets, and the calendar company began issuing a version of this piece wherein the nudity was obscured with the inclusion of a sheer bra and slip lingerie set. Both a print showing the nude version and a dated 1955 calendar of the image that shows the censored version of the artwork are included with sale. The lingerie was likely painted on a clear plastic overlay by a calendar company staff artist in order to produce variants of the image, and was never in fact painted by the artist Arnold Armitage or a part of this oil on canvas original painting. This breezy nude in an artist’s studio scene is all-original and a fresh to the market recently discovered pin-up painting that we were delighted to uncover. Painting is handsomely framed in a wide profile wood gallery frame and ready to enjoy.

Framed View
Framed View
Detail
Detail
Vintage calendar print included with sale
Vintage calendar print included with sale
Detail
Detail

 

Verso view of untouched canvas back on original pine stretchers
Verso view of untouched canvas back on original pine stretchers
Frame corner profile detail
Frame corner profile detail

Studio Setting

Artist: Arnold Armitage
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Arnold Armitage, Calendar, erotic, Louis F. Dow, nude, pin up
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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